Varqa Buehrer

Varqa Buehrer

History

Varqa Buehrer, a graduate from the esteemed University of Southern California (USC) Screen Scoring program, once an apprentice under three-time Grammy Award-nominated producer Photek, participated in the Emmy Award-winning Disney ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, composed music for the Hong Kong Screen Awards Best Picture Better Days. He has worked with famed directors Peter Chan, Ted Melfi, and Jia Zhangke. Varqa has on multiple occasions worked as composer and music director on International campaigns for Fortune 500 companies such as Samsung, Oppo, Columbia and Bank of China. Varqa's latest film, “Better Days” has been nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, winning Best Picture at the 39th Hong Kong Film Awards, and earning multiple nominations for the 33rd Golden Rooster Awards. His latest 12 episodes original series The Long Night, done in collaboration with his childhood friend and rising director If Chen has received “prevailing success beyond its initial premiere,” so much so the term "explosion from a height" was coined to describe this phenomenon.

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Varqa Buehrer
Varqa Buehrer
Varqa Buehrer

Movies

The Post-Truth World
The Post-Truth World
Original Music Composer
A has-been newscaster Liu Li-min is taken hostage by an escaped inmate Zhang Zheng-yi, who pleads his innocence. To Liu's astonishment, Zhang claims that he was smeared by Liu's departed wife. Thus, Liu teams up with Zhang and reinvestigates Zhang's murder case to help his beloved be cleared of blame. However, the more they get to the bottom of the case, the further the truth is beyond their reach.
The Comeback
The Comeback
Music
The son, who works as a stunt double in films, hurts himself. When he returns to spend Chinese New Year with his father, the villagers wants he to shoot a film about the village in order to make it internet famous. What kind of a film one can make to promote a village that resembles Mars?
Daughter
Daughter
Music
A film about 3 generations of Chinese women coming together at Chinese New Year.
Better Days
Better Days
Original Music Composer
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.